A blog hosted by the Right Honorable The Earl of Stirling, hereditary Governor & Lord Lieutenant of Canada, Lord High Admiral of Nova Scotia. Covers diverse topics including European and North American politics and economics, strategy, war, religion, high technology, End Times, medicine, Scotland, Scottish clans, Scots Peerage Law, and more.

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Why
have a color code? Well I have a tendency to want to highlight really
important things so I use this system. Also, this is a low-cost one-man
news blog and I simply want to add some color to the site and also help
to group stories. Tim Earl of Stirling

Last Minute Ohio directive could trash legal votes and swing the Election ~ link ~ A last-minute directive issued by Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted
(R) could invalidate legal provisional ballots. Ohio is widely viewed as
the most critical state for both presidential campaigns and — with some polls showing a close race — the 11th-hour move could swing the entire election.

The directive, issued Friday, lays out the requirements for
submitting a provisional ballot. The directive includes a form which
puts the burden on the voter to correctly record the form of ID provided
to election officials. Husted also instructed election officials that
if the form is not filled out correctly by a voter, the ballot should
not be counted.

If there is an Electoral College Tie (or a major dispute), things will get even crazier then you many know ~ link ~ How a little known clause in the US Constitution could have a major impact on the election! Resulting in a Republican President and a Democratic Vice-President. Stirling

If Mitt Romney continues to pick up votes in the swing states, we are
looking at the possibility that—whichever way the popular vote goes—the
Electoral College will give 269 votes to Romney and 269 votes to
President Obama.

Eleven states are still considered to be in play. The website 270towin calculates 32 possible combinations
that could result in a tie. If that happens, America would get a
complicated, tension-filled lesson in the Constitution—and a likely
result that you would not believe.

The decision about who will be the next president would get thrown to
the House of Representatives—where each state gets just one vote apiece.
That means the 29 members of Congress from New York would get one
vote—the same number as the single member of Congress from Montana.
Right after the new Congress got sworn in, in early January, all the
House members from each state would decide how to cast that state's one
vote.

Israeli military forces on High Alert after Syrian gunfire hit Israeli military jeep on Golan ~ link ~ Also see this with video ~ link ~Israeli air force planes are patrolling the
Golan and Galilee skies of northern Israel after the Syrians were
observed preparing aircraft and helicopters to fly to the aid of their
defeated ground forces in Quneitra.

After the Syrian army’s 90th Brigade was forced to retreat, Damascus is
reported by Western sources about to send reinforcements over to the
Golan to recover Quneitra. IDF contingents on the Golan and the
Israeli-Lebanese border are high alert in case the Syrian combat spills
over the border.

Netanyahu says he is ready to order an attack on Iran ~ link ~"I am, of course, ready to press the
button if necessary," Netanyahu said in the interview aired by Israel’s
Channel Two television on Monday.

On Sunday, a new report revealed that a planned Israeli strike
against Iran in 2010 was thwarted due to Tel Aviv’s qualms about its own
military capabilities as well as top-echelon internal opposition
against the measure.

On September 2, Netanyahu called on the international community to
set a "clear red line" for Iran to halt its nuclear energy program.

The US and Israel have repeatedly threatened to take military action
against Iran in order to force the Islamic Republic to halt its uranium
enrichment program, which Washington and Tel Aviv claim includes a
military component.

At the beginning of 2012, the United States and the European Union
imposed new sanctions on Iran’s oil and financial sectors with the goal
of preventing other countries from purchasing Iranian oil and conducting
transactions with the Central Bank of Iran.

The illegal US-engineered sanctions were imposed based on the
unfounded accusation that Iran is pursuing non-civilian objectives in
its nuclear energy program.

Israeli War Game does Not see attack on Iran starting World War III ~ link ~ The Israeli Institute of National Security knows better than to select the outcome before one even does the analysis!!! Iran and Syria have seen what has happened to Iraq and Libya and they WILL NOT be inclined to sit back and allow Israel to undertake a major military attack and reduce their strategic assets. After all the crap that Israel, NATO and the GCC nations have done to Iran and Syria lately, they are simply not going to allow the Zionists to cross a major line and get what it wants. When this war starts, it will quickly become World War III.Stirling

It would appear, based on the latest war games from Israel's Institute of National Security Studies,
that we should all go back to sleep and not worry about the impact of
an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear infrastructure. The reason not to
worry is simple - either it ignites World War III(which
we presume means it will be all over very rapidly and we will be
blissfully unaware until its too late to be capable of achieving
anything)or - as they suspect (and gamed out) - there will
be a focus on 'containment and restraint' with Iran unable to ignite
the Middle East. The result is predicated on 'actors' motivated by rationalconsiderations; which seems entirely irrational. All the gory details below...

After midnight on November 9, al-Jazeera reports that Israeli
airplanes have attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities in three waves of
attack. As reports multiply, Israel officially announces it has attacked
Iran’s nuclear sites because it had no other choice. According to the
scenario, Israel did not coordinate the attack with the United States in
advance, and only informed the US once the planes were already en route
to the Iranian targets. Initial assessments estimate that the Iranian
nuclear program has been set back by nearly three years.

Following the successful attack, Iran decides to react with maximal
force, launching radical elements – to attack Israel. Nonetheless, it
is careful to avoid attacking American targets. Israel attempts to
contain the attacks and works to attain a state of calm as rapidly as
possible. The international community is paralyzed, largely because
Russia tries to exploit the situation for its own strategic objectives.
At the end of the first 48 hours, Iran continues to attack Israel, as do
their proxies, albeit to a lesser extent. At this point in the
simulation, the crisis does not seem to be close to a resolution.

US Presidential Election and the Fourth Turning Generational Change Crisis ~ link ~ Same as the link immediately below. Stirling

“The next Fourth Turning is due to begin shortly after the new millennium, midway through the Oh-Oh decade. Around
the year 2005, a sudden spark will catalyze a Crisis mood. Remnants of
the old social order will disintegrate. Political and economic trust
will implode. Real hardship will beset the land, with severe distress
that could involve questions of class, race, nation and empire.
The very survival of the nation will feel at stake. Sometime before the
year 2025, America will pass through a great gate in history,
commensurate with the American Revolution, Civil War, and twin
emergencies of the Great Depression and World War II.” – Strauss & Howe–The Fourth Turning

Strauss & Howe wrote these words in 1997. They had predicted the
arrival of another Crisis in this time frame in their previous book Generations,
written in 1990. This wasn’t guesswork on their part. They understood
the dynamics of how generations interact and how the mood of the country
shifts every twenty or so years based upon the generational alignment
that occurs as predictably as the turning of the seasons. The last generation that lived through the entire previous Crisis from 1929 through 1946 has virtually died off.
This always signals the onset of the next Fourth Turning. The housing
bubble and its ultimate implosion created the spark for the current
Crisis that began in September 2008, with the near meltdown of the
worldwide financial system. Just as the stock market crash of 1929, the
election of Lincoln in 1860, and the Boston Tea Party in 1773 catalyzed a
dramatic mood change in the country, the Wall Street created financial
collapse in 2008 has ushered in a twenty year period of agony,
suffering, war and ultimately the annihilation of the existing social
order.

We have experienced the American High (Spring) from 1946 until 1964, witnessing America’s ascendancy as a global superpower. We survived the turbulent Consciousness Revolution Awakening (Summer) from 1964 until 1984, as Vietnam era protests morphed into yuppie era greed. The Long
Boom/Culture Wars Unraveling (Fall) lasted from Reagan’s Morning in
America in 1984 until the 2008 Wall Street/Federal Reserve spawned crash.
The pessimism built to a crescendo as worry about rising violence and
incivility, widening wealth inequality, and the splitting of the
national consensus into extremes on the left and right, led the country
into a winter of discontent. The Global Financial Crisis (Winter) has arrived in full fury
and is likely to last until the late 2020’s. It will be an era of
upheaval, financial turbulence, economic collapse, war, and the complete
redefinition of society, as the existing corrupt status quo is swept
away in the fury of powerful hurricane winds of change. History is cyclical and we’ve entered the most dangerous season, when the choices we make as a nation will have profound long lasting implications to the lives of future unborn generations.

A Russian nuclear-powered attack submarine cruised within 200 miles
of the East Coast recently in the latest sign Russia is continuing to
flex its naval and aerial power against the United States, defense
officials said.

The submarine was identified by its NATO designation as a Russian
Seirra-2 class submarine believed to be based with Russia’s Northern
Fleet. It was the first time that class of Russian submarine had been
detected near a U.S. coast, said officials who spoke on condition of
anonymity because of the sensitive nature of anti-submarine warfare
efforts.

US and Japan begin large-scale war games - video ~ link ~ Getting ready for one of the major war theaters to the coming Third World War. Stirling

A court in Turkey is
set to begin the in absentia trial of four former Israeli military
commanders over their role in the murder of nine Turkish activists on
the Gaza Freedom Flotilla in 2010.

In May 2012, an Istanbul court approved an indictment seeking
multiple life sentences for the Israeli military men in the massacre on
the high seas, and the trial opens on Tuesday.

The 144-page indictment had called for nine life sentences to be given to each of the four former Israeli commanders.

USAF filled with 'geriatric and decrepit' warplanes from the 60's and 70's ~ link ~ That is what happens when you "replace" $10 million dollar planes with $100 million dollar and $1 billion dollar planes. Stirling

Prince Mohammed, who is in his early 50s, replaces his uncle,
Prince Ahmed bin Abdul Aziz, less than five months after he took up the
post.

Greece Braces for 48-hour strike amid crucial debate ~ link ~ Greece is braced for a
48-hour general strike across public and private sectors in protest at a
proposed new wave of spending cuts.

Protest marches - which regularly end in running battles with police - are planned for the centre of Athens.

Red Chinese Renminhi relentlessly replacing US Dollar as Global Reserve Currency ~ link ~ It is no secret that China is replacing the U.S. dollar with its own
currency in more and more of its bilateral trading. It’s apparent to all
that the renminbi will soon have (at least) a co-equal status with the
dollar as the global “reserve currency”. Yet
what is rarely if ever discussed in the mainstream media are the
enormous economic repercussions of a world suddenly awash with a massive
glut of surplus dollars.

Ron Paul: The Economics of Disaster ~ link ~ Hurricane Sandy was one of the worst natural disasters the east coast
has ever seen. Clean-up and recovery will take months, if not years and
estimates run in the tens of billions of dollars. Parts of New York
and New Jersey will never be the same. Entire seashore communities have
been wiped out, but the determination to rebuild has been lauded as
courageous and admirable. Yet as with all natural disasters,
Sandy raises uncomfortable questions about the extent to which taxpayers
should fund the cleanup and the extent to which government programs create moral hazards. The greatest compassion brings results, not just good intentions.

Hit by crisis, Greek society in free-fall ~ link ~ A sign taped to a wall in an Athens hospital appealed for civility from patients. "The doctors on duty have been unpaid since May," it read, "Please respect their work."

Patients and their relatives glanced up briefly and moved on,
hardened to such messages of gloom. In a country where about 1,000
people lose their jobs
each day, legions more are still employed but haven't seen a paycheck
in months. What used to be an anomaly has become commonplace, and those
who have jobs that pay on time consider themselves the exception to the
rule.

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About Me

I hold several ancient Scottish titles, Earl of Stirling, Viscount of Canada, Viscount of Stirling, Lord Alexander of Tulibody (1630), Lord Alexander of Tulibody (1633), etc., Chief of Clan Alexander, I also hold several honorific old Canadian great offices-of-state: Lord Lieutenant and Governor of Canada, Lord High Admiral of Nova Scotia, Lord Lieutenant of Nova Scotia, Lt.-Gen. of Nova Scotis (first Lord Stirling was founder of English speaking Canada in the early 1600s). I hold 3 degrees: B.Sc. in Pol. Sc. & History; M.A. in European Studies; B.Sc. in Education. I have worked on 3 addtional degrees: M.T.S. (theology); LL.B. (English Law); M.S. (Criminal Justice). I am former Scottish Editor at Burke's Peerage in London. I also hold several Scots/Canadian feudal titles. I am a widower. I have a published book, CASH FOR PEERAGES: THE SMOKING GUN, www.lulu.com/content/953682 .
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